RHCE in Ansible: automation and operations

Objectives and progression

Eight lessons and 58 original decisions in fictional APS and IT-project contexts. Internal assessment of 32 decisions in 70 minutes. Guided coverage of EX294 objective groups; not a substitute for practical labs. Complete storage, SELinux, archive automation, and exam-environment execution require further depth. Since 2026-05-11, this course maps to RHCE in Ansible: RHCSA and EX294. EX294 alone awards Advanced System Administrator in Ansible. RHCE in Enterprise Linux uses a different path with EX342. Confirm product version during official registration.

Audience: Linux administrators, APS L3 engineers, and operational automation owners.

Prerequisites: RHCSA-equivalent practice, shell, services, networking, permissions, and YAML basics. RHCSA is part of the official credential path; holding it is not required to study here.

450 estimated study minutes

• Turn manual tasks into reproducible, verifiable state.
• Explain actual scope and the origin of execution values.
• Prepare managed nodes and dependencies of the environment running the playbook.
• Connect code review to the artifact and environment actually executed.
• Encode the meaning of change, failure, recovery, and stopping.
• Reuse automation with explicit dependencies and interfaces.
• Choose module states according to operational outcomes.
• Publish deterministic configuration and protect secrets during execution.

Modules

1. State and repeatability
2. Inventories, variables, and configuration
3. Access and execution environment
4. Git, dev containers, and rehearsals
5. Handlers, failures, and batches
6. Roles, collections, and contracts
7. System state and persistence
8. Templates, Vault, and RUN handover

Continue learning

Linux

• RHCSA — Red Hat Certified System Administrator
• Ansible
• LFCS — Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator

References and version

EX294 current objectives inspected 2026-09-30; RHCE in Ansible framework effective 2026-05-11; booking product version not publicly pinned

• EX294 Advanced System Administrator in Ansible objectives · 2026-09-30
• RHCE in Ansible requirements · 2026-09-30
• Certification framework changes effective May11,2026 · 2026-09-30
• AU294 training baseline: RHEL 10, core 2.16, AAP 2.6 · 2026-09-30
• Certification program guide · 2026-09-30
• Execution environments and dependencies · 2026-09-30
• Automation content navigator · 2026-09-30
• Navigator settings and commands · 2026-09-30
• Writing playbooks in VS Code · 2026-09-30
• Dev Containers extension · 2026-09-30
• Development tools inside VS Code container · 2026-09-30
• Packaging collections · 2026-09-30
• Variables and registered results · 2026-09-30
• Static inventories and groups · 2026-09-30
• Configuration and variable precedence · 2026-09-30
• Ansible configuration discovery · 2026-09-30
• Privilege escalation · 2026-09-30
• Facts and hostvars · 2026-09-30
• Loops and registered result lists · 2026-09-30
• Conditional execution · 2026-09-30
• Handler notification and flushing · 2026-09-30
• Block rescue and always · 2026-09-30
• Vault protection scope · 2026-09-30
• Using encrypted content · 2026-09-30
• Template validation and permissions · 2026-09-30
• Command arguments and creates · 2026-09-30
• Service state and boot enablement · 2026-09-30
• Package state · 2026-09-30
• Runtime and permanent firewall · 2026-09-30
• Runtime and persistent mounts · 2026-09-30
• User supplementary groups · 2026-09-30
• Named scheduled jobs · 2026-09-30
• Ansible ping and Python · 2026-09-30
• SSH authorized keys · 2026-09-30
• Filesystem ownership and modes · 2026-09-30
• Pinned roles and collections · 2026-09-30
• Role organization and variables · 2026-09-30
• Batch execution · 2026-09-30
• Check and diff mode · 2026-09-30
• Failure and changed semantics · 2026-09-30
• Git clone · 2026-09-30
• Git add · 2026-09-30
• Git push · 2026-09-30